Chapter 1400: Defeat is like a mountain

The leader of the Praetorian Guard, Ibn was experiencing an unprecedented ordeal in his life, his men losing control in the thick smoke that filled the riverbank, and the Tang cavalry was imminent. Everything came so suddenly, it was unexpected.

"Muhammad, Muhammad!"

He shouted the name of Muhammad, and the man who had been like a fart did not know where he had gone.

Iben intended to let Muhammad and his tribal army rush forward to resist for a while, after all, these tribal armies were not caught in a melee, and they could be assembled relatively easily, as long as they could hold back the advance of the Tang cavalry, there was still room for maneuver.

But Muhammad was not a fool, how could he allow his people to be the shield of death?

While Ibn was in a scuffle with the Tang cavalry, the cowardly and cunning betrayer betrayed his master once more, crossing the river northwest of the Shari River with his men, and then quickly fled westward, intending to return to the city of Elam.

Upon confirmation of the surprise attack of the Tang cavalry, Muhammad could almost have concluded that Ibn would have lost the battle, and that if he was unlucky, he might even be wiped out here, and it would not be surprising that he would have lost a small life.

"This damn coward, cowardly reptile, I'm going to kill him!"

With Ibn gritting his teeth cursing and cursing, which had no effect on the situation on the battlefield, his Praetorian Guard was finally caught in a difficult dilemma.

Before that, no one in the Praetorian Guard could have predicted that their defeat would come so quickly and so suddenly.

After the battle, Ibn discovered that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty were all from the auxiliary army of the steppe tribe, not the headquarters of the so-called Shenwu army, which deeply hurt his heart.

As we all know, the Cooperative Army has always been the icing on the cake, and there are many coercive servants in the Great Food Army, and they are even comparable to the Great Cannibals in terms of the size of their troops, but they are more used as props for their strength, and they cannot be counted on in a real tough battle.

However, the Tang Dynasty people actually dared to use the Cooperative Army to single out the most elite Praetorian Guards in the empire, was this the contempt of the Tang Dynasty people for the Praetorian Guard, or was the enemy already so strong that it was unimaginable to themselves?

There was not much time left for him to be angry and anxious, and the cavalry of the Grolu tribe swept across the east bank of the Shali River with a fierce wind, and the scattered Janissaries had just crossed the river and were already scattered and crushed before they could finish their formation.

About thirty percent of the men and horses that had been stationed on the west bank had crossed the river at this time, and they were swept everywhere by the wind like a storm of defeat, while the remaining seven adults stopped crossing the river and watched in horror what was happening on the east bank of the river.

Their leader was now in the midst of a rebellious siege, not knowing whether he would live or die, but they could only obey the last orders they had received from Ibn and form themselves and wait for their comrades on the other side to break out of the siege.

Only a few hundred guards gathered around Ibn were braver than anyone else, and they escorted Ibn to the shore.

However, the cavalry was too aggressive, and the Praetorian Guards who crossed the river did not form a military formation in time to block the onslaught of the Grolus, so they could only try to keep themselves from being overturned, and it was even more difficult to do something extra.

Ibn almost gritted his teeth in anger, he couldn't accept this situation, how could the Praetorian Guard be defeated by an army of assistants?

In the previous reconnaissance, he had also determined that the Tang soldiers who attacked Elam this time were only a medium-sized partial division, and they were very bold and aggressive in formulating the battle plan, and carried out a sudden encirclement attack, if it was not disturbed by the sudden appearance of artillery, it was very likely that the Tang people would have been repelled in a battle.

But the assumption is only a hypothesis after all, he still suffered the loss of the Tang people's firearms in the end, although the Praetorian Guard is brave, but they have never seen this kind of weapon that can hurt people by making a loud noise, and it is understandable that it is on the verge of collapse under the multiple blows of body and spirit.

Although the truth is reasonable, the loser will not be given a chance on the battlefield, the winner can take everything, and the loser will even offer his own life with both hands, whether he is willing or not.

Iben struggled to control the horses, and there was a thunderous sound of cannons at hand, and the horses were frightened by the sudden loud noise, this time the distance was too close, and many of the horses suddenly jumped up and down like crazy, completely uncontrollable.

However, as if they had not heard, the cavalry of the Grolu continued to wash the east bank of the Shali River like a tidal wave, trying to sweep away all the fish, shrimp and crabs that came from the Great Food.

Unbeknownst to Iben, all the Tang armies in Persia, including the Shenwu Army and the Affiliated Army, had been trained to be accustomed to the sound of cannons, and they had plugged their horse's ears with cotton wool during the war, so that they could run on the battlefield with the rumbling of cannons.

The Great Food Praetorian Guard is different, their cavalry is one of the best in the empire, especially the escort cavalry of the leader of the Praetorian Guard, they are all warriors in a hundred, and even the war horses are also good horses in a hundred.

It's a pity that the opponent they encountered is unprecedented, their defeat is not only the reason for the combat strength, if a single round of combat effectiveness, this partial division of the Tang Dynasty may not be an opponent, but a combination of various factors, no matter what the situation, finally made the balance of victory biased in favor of the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing that they had reached the shore, Grolo's cavalry suddenly spotted the hundreds of cavalry that were tightly hugged, and immediately surrounded them like locusts, attacking them from two directions, trying to completely disperse them after a single charge.

The main task of the Grolu cavalry was to disperse all the large food armies formed on the east bank of the river, and then the infantry soldiers would kill these scattered soldiers.

Ibn had been holding his breath for a long time, and suddenly saw that these barbarians were outflanking him in two ways, and he was furious, and ordered his subordinates to fire crossbows, let these people suffer a little, and then find an opportunity to cross the river.

In fact, they could cross the river immediately when they reached the shore, and the Grolo cavalry would not chase them across the river for a few hundred men, but it was not very wise to mount their horses and shoot with crossbows.

The number of crossbow arrows fired in a single salvo was not large enough to delay the impact of the two cavalry forces, and it would have no effect other than causing casualties of up to 100 men.

The cavalry's horses would pass over the corpses of their comrades and continue to charge forward until they had completely bitten the enemy and torn them apart.

Ibn soon tasted the bitter fruit of his irrationality, and the dozens of cavalry behind the palace were like worms trampled to death, and they did not play any role.

He suddenly woke up from the rage of his hot blood!